Extended working life policies : international gender and health perspectives
Date
2020Author
Léime, Áine Ní
Ogg, Jim
Rašticová, Martina
Street, Debra
Krekula, Clary
Bédiová, Monika
Madero-Cabib, Ignacio
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Léime, Áine Ní
Ogg, Jim
Rašticová, Martina
Street, Debra
Krekula, Clary
Bédiová, Monika
Madero-Cabib, Ignacio
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Abstract
Across OECD countries there has been a concerted push over the past decade and a
half to get older people to delay retirement. This is in contrast to the earlier post-war
period, when organisations, social partners and sometimes governments responded
to an overall decrease in demand for labour by promoting early retirement/exit. This
recent change has been influenced by demographic projections of population ageing
and by the advocacy of international organisations such as the World Bank and the
OECD. Such a policy focus has been presented positively in terms of helping to
support extended working lives, and giving people greater choice over working
longer. At an EU level, a positive development has been legislation to protect
individuals from age discrimination, a move that began earlier in the USA.
However, as this excellent volume convincingly argues, much of the policy in this
area is inadequate, treats older people as a homogenous group, and does not consider the gendered consequences of pressures to work longer.
Writing in the UK context, one does not have to look very far to see how
contentious pressures to extend working lives are. A recent survey has suggested
that the prospect of extended working lives has caused significant concerns among
the adult population. In the political field, one of the debates in the UK general
election of 2020 was the treatment of women born in the 1950s who have been
affected by rapidly rising state pension ages. In 2010 state pension age for women
was 60, but this had risen to 65 in 2019 (matching male pension age) and will rise to
66 in 2020 (and beyond this in later years). The ‘Women Against State Pension Age
Increases’ movement has argued that female state pension age increases were
poorly communicated to the public. As a result, some women made financial plans
based on a state pension of 60, and now find themselves out of work and having to
wait until 66 for a pension. The impact of financial pressures to work longer have
arguably been particularly acute for women, given that women often amass lower
pensions than men but are increasingly finding themselves single or remarried in
older age. Such changes illustrate why this book on gender and extended working
lives is so timely and so important.
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Extended Working Life; International Gender and Health PerspectivesCollections
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